Numbers 1:1 (BSB)

On the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, the LORD spoke to Moses in the Tent of Meeting in the Wilderness of Sinai. He said:

From Numbers 1. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Numbers 1:1

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Numbers 1:1: 1. And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai Although this is the first numbering of the people, of which we have an account, still, inasmuch as God had already imposed a tax upon every person, the amount of which has been recorded, we infer that it was in fact the second.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Numbers 1:1-16: I. We have here a commission issued out for the numbering of the people of Israel; and David, long after, paid dearly for doing it without a commission. Here is, 1. The date of this commission, Num 1:1. (1.) The place: it is given at God's court in the wilderness of Sinai, from his royal palace, the tabernacle of the congregation.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 1:1: And the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai,.... Which is different from the wilderness of Sin, Exo 16:1; and had its name from the mountain so called, on which God gave the law of the decalogue, and where the Israelites had been encamped eleven months, Exo 19:1, in the tabernacle of the congregation; which had now been set up a whole month...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Numbers 1:1: And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first [day] of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, The Argument - In that as God has appointed that his Church in this world shall be under the cross, both so they could learn...